72 BEDFORD LEVEL. 



Level Corporation had rendered the 

 land available for agricultural purposes, 

 that there was any road upon which 

 a stage-coach could travel ; and it has 

 since, by means of improved and improv- 

 ing drainage, been made most productive. 

 Consequently, a certain class have sud- 

 denly, as it were, become opulent ; and 

 it is well known that men confined to 

 employments that require their immediate 

 superintendence are not so apt generally 

 to catch at the advantages of social and 

 intellectual improvement, as they are to 

 enjoy the prospect and revel in the rea- 

 lity of increasing abundance. 



Hence the disparity of wealth and 

 intelligence so palpable in the laity 

 in this district ; hence, too, the princely 

 incomes of some of our more favoured 

 clergy ; but, as we have witnessed the 

 great improvement made in the last 

 generation or two, we may safely con- 

 clude that not another will pass away 



